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Bashful One
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Nikola Ready for Spring!
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Why do you hide?
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Bashful One
Shy flower!
Why do you hide
your sweet face?
Staring with uncertain
wariness from
beneath your canopy
of leaves.
I ponder at this display
as you are such a beauty.
Alas, you are unable
to speak your reply!
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