Love at First Sight

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Love at First Sight
by Wislawa Szymborska
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/ g# A3 b- f4 d# NThey both thought
5 _" D% a% u3 y" k1 t& v; \  nthat a sudden feeling had united them
This certainty is beautiful,
Even more beautiful than uncertainty.

4 G$ A. H. q/ M: _: aThey thought they didn't know each other,
nothing had ever happened between them,
/ D1 f% x8 `4 Q& GThese streets, these stairs, this corridors,
Where they could have met so long ago?
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7 h1 i% a% Y# ~; }0 X3 OI would like to ask them,
if they can remember -
perhaps in a revolving door
face to face one day?
A "sorry" in the crowd?
- K8 S# D4 r0 ?"Wrong number" on the 'phone?
3 L+ {' ^7 p3 T6 L$ \# C  i, R- ^- but I know the answer.
No, they don't remember.
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- t. S+ G3 X+ RHow surprised they would be
: s, A, d& L, _4 ?6 N, F+ S6 F* ~For such a long time already
( [. D! q0 Q, j- s: L4 gFate has been playing with them.
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( g8 v4 c" @$ [Not quite yet ready
; `6 ^/ {/ Q* d: k' G0 nto change into destiny,
which brings them nearer and yet further,
. D! c+ w+ z( f# j' e! [8 z0 vcutting their path
% [- N* H: d! X* k0 Mand stifling a laugh,
9 V& S1 {3 p- g; \( G% E. ~escaping ever further;
There were sings, indications,
undecipherable, what does in matter.
+ R, ?- l$ N, Q. u4 O3 SThree years ago, perhaps
or even last Tuesday,
this leaf flying
from one shoulder to another?
! |7 Z, N% p" w+ U4 T% ?* pSomething lost and gathered.
! k1 D! v  Y% g5 p+ u' S4 _+ BWho knows, perhaps a ball already
1 ?; k$ p' h' N) l9 R  o7 D3 din the bushes, in childhood?
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There were handles, door bells,
4 ]$ c9 J4 }4 w8 J- S: e! Iwhere, on the trace of a hand,
% L( W1 g* q3 ]6 uanother hand was placed;
suitcases next to one another in the
% v' x* N# r9 u0 n. mleft luggage.
And maybe one night the same dream
forgotten on walking;

But every beginning
/ w* _& n+ K2 x' z1 tis only a continuation
- y9 H; m$ J" z% uand the book of fate is
always open in the middle.
+ m! E' v, z* m9 I  I( Z2 G% WTranslation from Polish by Roman Gren
Translation from French by Sarah Hardenberg

晓晓晓晓

向左走向右走里面有用这首诗的一节哎~!