Love at First Sight

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Love at First Sight
" b( \: x- q: {8 @by Wislawa Szymborska
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: P3 r9 p5 e" PThey both thought
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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,
% m' L0 ?. z* k) Z; U, f% jThese streets, these stairs, this corridors,
5 P# p2 d2 S3 Q! C; TWhere they could have met so long ago?

' G/ K( q/ R6 w$ I- E/ pI would like to ask them,
if they can remember -
perhaps in a revolving door
face to face one day?
$ F$ k- P7 f7 zA "sorry" in the crowd?
"Wrong number" on the 'phone?
- but I know the answer.
2 R  p2 ~5 E* v7 A0 u0 sNo, they don't remember.
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  r' c" r! d+ z: T4 e( A0 lHow surprised they would be
For such a long time already
Fate has been playing with them.
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, b9 t+ A. P5 j: C; A3 VNot quite yet ready
2 `9 J* H' M- @8 lto change into destiny,
which brings them nearer and yet further,
cutting their path
5 V2 K1 S+ c& n2 c# Z! W! \and stifling a laugh,
escaping ever further;
+ i& F7 ]7 {/ |" t. GThere were sings, indications,
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Three years ago, perhaps
4 G6 A/ ^/ L8 {/ Zor even last Tuesday,
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from one shoulder to another?
Something lost and gathered.
& G# H; J0 h/ r, \Who knows, perhaps a ball already
in the bushes, in childhood?
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7 f9 K! ]- a0 x1 X! P; p1 WThere were handles, door bells,
where, on the trace of a hand,
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suitcases next to one another in the
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And maybe one night the same dream
7 Q1 J) l: j/ Z# Hforgotten on walking;
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But every beginning
is only a continuation
and the book of fate is
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Translation from Polish by Roman Gren
Translation 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~!