A Butterfly in Church

George Marion McClellan

1860 to 1934

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