A Butterfly in Church
George Marion McClellan
1860 to 1934
Drag the words to the correct places to complete the poem. To reset the game, click on the "Reset Game" button located below the poem. This will clear all the words you've placed in the blanks, returning them to the word bank and resetting the poem to its original state with empty blanks.
What dost thou here, thou shining, sinless thing,
With ______ colored hues and shapely wing?
Why quit the open ______ and summer air
To flutter here? Thou hast no ______ of prayer.
'Tis meet that we, who this great ______ built,
Should come to be redeemed and washed from guilt,
For we this gilded edifice within
Are come, with ______ hearts and stains of sin.
But thou art free ______ guilt as God on high;
Go, seek the blooming ______ and open sky,
And leave us here our secret ______ to bear,
Confessionals and agonies of prayer.