Love at First Sight

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Love at First Sight
2 S' P: w' P( Z; ?% Z" h- }by Wislawa Szymborska


5 i& X/ }6 v! M# n1 Z( X% l; bThey both thought
: A2 ]7 f, p. L$ C, v; ?5 qthat a sudden feeling had united them
9 A- |7 p2 {0 s1 I2 v: Q% S4 PThis certainty is beautiful,
* F. {, E( y  k1 K% H: o" EEven more beautiful than uncertainty.

They thought they didn't know each other,
+ U: I1 E7 b- L) knothing had ever happened between them,
These streets, these stairs, this corridors,
0 C( j: H7 v( \: X: d8 {2 Z: G! jWhere they could have met so long ago?
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* _7 }/ T& n& r% V, |I would like to ask them,
if they can remember -
perhaps in a revolving door
7 _7 A2 v6 R8 U/ Z  j4 wface to face one day?
4 q* w. f2 s& @( L# ]7 Q3 [A "sorry" in the crowd?
+ y; l8 m  s5 ?4 x# F3 V& k"Wrong number" on the 'phone?
- but I know the answer.
( `7 x6 ^- B$ Q" @6 ~No, they don't remember.

# U% m$ U( ?$ [How surprised they would be
" H# `* L0 b; @! x- d, WFor such a long time already
Fate has been playing with them.
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* ^. O4 W  K8 m- z3 Z$ ]$ i$ LNot quite yet ready
to change into destiny,
which brings them nearer and yet further,
cutting their path
and stifling a laugh,
! v, j" x. W" V5 j; aescaping ever further;
0 Q! t% m- _# F1 C0 b( TThere were sings, indications,
undecipherable, what does in matter.
Three years ago, perhaps
or even last Tuesday,
this leaf flying
& m* T4 e# O3 s" L9 Hfrom one shoulder to another?
Something lost and gathered.
! m% r$ a8 i6 b4 MWho knows, perhaps a ball already
9 A/ C4 b6 o: c3 z. ]in the bushes, in childhood?
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There were handles, door bells,
where, on the trace of a hand,
: H( P9 x# W' ranother hand was placed;
suitcases next to one another in the
left luggage.
# r7 C# D: c; _And maybe one night the same dream
forgotten on walking;

But every beginning
0 ^3 t& m1 R0 }is only a continuation
  K- d# K* T9 j/ s- Wand the book of fate is
+ r% F0 ^5 a6 Q0 R3 A1 \  x/ palways open in the middle.
Translation from Polish by Roman Gren
0 L/ Y% R% n" E" \' W- XTranslation 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~!