Love at First Sight

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Love at First Sight
( [) i. j# I% {( Y9 eby Wislawa Szymborska

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They both thought
: K  L& v$ E$ ^! ?4 {that a sudden feeling had united them
This certainty is beautiful,
" I2 t% j1 Q! E  hEven more beautiful than uncertainty.
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2 u+ v4 T7 d( }- i+ U7 R, WThey thought they didn't know each other,
! N* h6 W% U% ?9 d5 D* g+ b" P  Qnothing had ever happened between them,
9 W1 I: v+ x9 m- nThese streets, these stairs, this corridors,
( f# Z7 I% O* d! YWhere they could have met so long ago?

3 u" `/ x) `, J( H8 q/ P  g9 DI would like to ask them,
5 V# p8 s: m5 V/ o6 `if they can remember -
9 f- j! S' m: Q" v2 k7 \4 i  d: Dperhaps in a revolving door
( A4 K& `' h5 o& G8 @! J6 xface to face one day?
9 ?6 ^( Z# R9 l3 ~  JA "sorry" in the crowd?
4 @9 B) b: I; f# E5 |6 b: v"Wrong number" on the 'phone?
- but I know the answer.
4 ?  s# q2 e3 Q/ a) |1 Q/ ]$ }1 zNo, they don't remember.

3 y' S1 I0 U# N5 b- p' u" hHow surprised they would be
For such a long time already
Fate has been playing with them.
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Not quite yet ready
to change into destiny,
which brings them nearer and yet further,
cutting their path
and stifling a laugh,
escaping ever further;
8 J8 n9 }1 V2 h3 O  K% ^There were sings, indications,
undecipherable, what does in matter.
Three years ago, perhaps
or even last Tuesday,
this leaf flying
0 w6 i* \0 |8 Z- V* k8 Q$ pfrom one shoulder to another?
Something lost and gathered.
4 h5 |; l4 D8 m* c2 TWho knows, perhaps a ball already
in the bushes, in childhood?
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3 m0 r. _7 ?8 SThere were handles, door bells,
8 X8 V. n2 j) }" m( U( j  owhere, on the trace of a hand,
another hand was placed;
& q# P: B0 I$ d( N2 `suitcases next to one another in the
left luggage.
& t7 t! f5 P; N  \2 e& h$ GAnd maybe one night the same dream
# \: h6 f' x6 s) f  k' I. Gforgotten on walking;

But every beginning
( T& _6 d% @' V$ h) Ris only a continuation
and the book of fate is
always open in the middle.
Translation 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~!