A Butterfly in Church
George Marion McClellan
1860 to 1934
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Confessionals and agonies of prayer.
But thou art free from guilt as God on high;
With many colored hues and shapely wing?
What dost thou here, thou shining, sinless thing,
To flutter here? Thou hast no need of prayer.
Are come, with erring hearts and stains of sin.
Should come to be redeemed and washed from guilt,
'Tis meet that we, who this great structure built,
Go, seek the blooming waste and open sky,
And leave us here our secret woes to bear,
Why quit the open field and summer air
For we this gilded edifice within