A Butterfly in Church

George Marion McClellan

1860 to 1934

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For we this gilded edifice within
What dost thou here, thou shining, sinless thing,
Why quit the open field and summer air
Confessionals and agonies of prayer.
With many colored hues and shapely wing?
'Tis meet that we, who this great structure built,
Go, seek the blooming waste and open sky,
But thou art free from guilt as God on high;
Should come to be redeemed and washed from guilt,
And leave us here our secret woes to bear,
To flutter here? Thou hast no need of prayer.
Are come, with erring hearts and stains of sin.