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From Wikipedia
The ace of spades (also known as the spadille) is traditionally the highest and most valued card in the deck of playing cards, at least in English-speaking countries.

For a short description of the Night Before Christmas authorship attribution controversy, see a previous poem announcement.

[mairdie]

To Spadille

Thou little four-led’d paltry varlet
It makes my colour rise like scarlet
To see thee jump upon a knee
Where I would give the world to be;
Nay, I could name the very time
When I beheld that nose of thine
Approach those lips which once to kiss
I felt the height of all my bliss.

These eyes have seen thy head at rest
Upon my lovely Delia’s breast;
A breast from beauty’s model made
Where all the loves & graces play’d.
I’ve seen thee gaze upon those eyes
Where roguish Cupid ever lyes
And meet a glance so soft - so kind
That envy fill’d my aching mind.

Spadille, in pity to my pain
Attempt thy perness to restrain -
- It hurts my soul to see a waste
Of fondness thou canst never taste.

Could I but take thy envied place
I’d gaze upon her lovely face
Till all inflamed with her charms
Around her neck I’d throw my arms
And riot in a sea of blisses
While giving & receiving kisses.

[mairdie]

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