A Butterfly in Church
George Marion McClellan
1860 to 1934
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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.