Love at First Sight

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Love at First Sight
3 l0 _9 |% p; ]: _) J, Eby Wislawa Szymborska
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4 o+ L2 S' _1 H  _# mThey both thought
that a sudden feeling had united them
This certainty is beautiful,
Even more beautiful than uncertainty.
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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?
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I would like to ask them,
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8 ~) I3 g' D! b0 P; Nperhaps in a revolving door
" g; s9 j# m) k0 d' J) {face to face one day?
A "sorry" in the crowd?
"Wrong number" on the 'phone?
8 Y; E! F+ P, y) c/ n9 r  T. c- but I know the answer.
, a5 S5 V" _- B5 M) W1 @- tNo, they don't remember.
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' W3 M) T+ z, S6 m' x/ GHow surprised they would be
" c1 p4 B" Z; R5 ZFor such a long time already
Fate has been playing with them.

Not quite yet ready
to change into destiny,
) x3 K: _3 U4 c5 P+ W6 mwhich brings them nearer and yet further,
% v5 m3 p! g9 F5 a# h& hcutting their path
6 V3 F4 d' w2 h, N( qand stifling a laugh,
" b+ ~0 Q! G" [, I' ~escaping ever further;
( A. H% s% x- ZThere were sings, indications,
undecipherable, what does in matter.
Three years ago, perhaps
or even last Tuesday,
this leaf flying
3 v* u# r$ n3 R1 [" ^2 gfrom one shoulder to another?
Something lost and gathered.
Who knows, perhaps a ball already
in the bushes, in childhood?

There were handles, door bells,
( h2 `1 a0 `: h' s/ Q; Owhere, on the trace of a hand,
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8 m- _. \7 {. ~( x" h9 ]suitcases next to one another in the
left luggage.
( a8 n/ V# N6 b/ t# v- `And maybe one night the same dream
forgotten on walking;
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But every beginning
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and the book of fate is
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Translation from Polish by Roman Gren
% R$ Q9 n% E% W& m3 iTranslation 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~!