A Butterfly in Church
George Marion McClellan
1860 to 1934
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Reconstruct the poem by dragging each line into its correct position. Your goal is to reassemble the original poem as accurately as possible. As you move the lines, you'll see whether your arrangement is correct, helping you explore the poem's flow and meaning. You can also print out the jumbled poem to cut up and reassemble in the classroom. Either way, take your time, enjoy the process, and discover how the poet's words come together to create something truly beautiful.
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Why quit the open field and summer air
With many colored hues and shapely wing?
'Tis meet that we, who this great structure built,
And leave us here our secret woes to bear,
Are come, with erring hearts and stains of sin.
Go, seek the blooming waste and open sky,
What dost thou here, thou shining, sinless thing,
Confessionals and agonies of prayer.
Should come to be redeemed and washed from guilt,
For we this gilded edifice within
But thou art free from guilt as God on high;
To flutter here? Thou hast no need of prayer.