Love at First Sight

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Love at First Sight
& {% }( K3 V% r  _- y' A3 ~4 Y" A) S) _by Wislawa Szymborska

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They both thought
that a sudden feeling had united them
This certainty is beautiful,
* N- D, `( M) xEven more beautiful than uncertainty.

They thought they didn't know each other,
nothing had ever happened between them,
These streets, these stairs, this corridors,
Where they could have met so long ago?

I would like to ask them,
& c4 C* M$ }  i' dif they can remember -
perhaps in a revolving door
face to face one day?
A "sorry" in the crowd?
"Wrong number" on the 'phone?
- but I know the answer.
No, they don't remember.
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( r% {$ g6 |$ w$ Z& zHow surprised they would be
; o# q/ N" j- J' H: W0 a9 ?7 U0 kFor such a long time already
Fate has been playing with them.

Not quite yet ready
to change into destiny,
7 ]) e' ~3 x+ T; v6 [6 fwhich brings them nearer and yet further,
8 T) l/ ~& Y8 l( C- f4 e/ }& _cutting their path
and stifling a laugh,
escaping ever further;
0 i2 W- z1 F- d/ e4 IThere were sings, indications,
undecipherable, what does in matter.
* s) ~# k" s- \; R% m( y4 r2 V& @  j; qThree years ago, perhaps
! S# p3 f) H  A& v! p8 Zor even last Tuesday,
- }- M! J, Y0 {+ i! y8 F( fthis leaf flying
from one shoulder to another?
1 x% Q1 `8 M; u6 r6 ^! v8 |9 |Something lost and gathered.
$ [: \6 I( J' j% r6 w4 W5 N. j+ EWho knows, perhaps a ball already
9 V3 J- Y7 d8 R# |. }6 N! ~% R2 Yin the bushes, in childhood?

) ^% U; W: g' M+ eThere were handles, door bells,
where, on the trace of a hand,
: n) M: [, O1 ]' ianother hand was placed;
suitcases next to one another in the
& j; T9 Y6 K% X1 kleft luggage.
And maybe one night the same dream
forgotten on walking;
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But every beginning
. X+ B& \1 g$ s) G* l9 `9 T# fis only a continuation
and the book of fate is
5 g9 i2 d  t. b  yalways open in the middle.
Translation from Polish by Roman Gren
* `8 M8 }7 O/ I' DTranslation from French by Sarah Hardenberg

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向左走向右走里面有用这首诗的一节哎~!