1. What sanctity does this edifice enclose
The sky envied its land that it chose

2. If anything on this earth sacred could be
Then this is that sanctified edifice to me

3. It is but a structure, yet it is graced
With great intentions that hallow a place

4. Whenever I come to it, humbly, I see
Majestic glory underneath its roof so high

5. It pioneered in this land, and to protect
Innocents in it, acts a chaste intellect

6. We never before thought of what was thought of
By the merciful before we were brought of

7. Misery's blight in homelands was a bane
That melted babies into woe and pain

8. A child, some by poverty were undone
Though their mothers had milk that could suckle one

9. A mother whose spouse made her hopes recede
And penury wore down her body and deed

10. Her gaunt shape told that tale although she had
No withering in her frame or muscles clad

11. Her breast sagged without milk or any food
To nourish the babe as a motherhood should

12. So if he did not live, death gave him release
And if he lived, he lived with disease

13. That's how newborns lived, their lives to cede
Fated for extinction, their brief lives to bleed

14. It's base that we see children with us fade
For they are poor, hence their loss decades made

15. No food in their insides, no clothes for their backs
No covers above them, no shelter that packs

16. A child dead, if alive, a hope he'd have been
Of succor for people, a prospect foreseen

17. Many died with them whose honorable thought
Brought us glory, esteem that their loss had wrought

18. Children's deaths are no triviality
For geniuses could have stemmed from their seed

19. They are like sea shells, you know not if they
Hide a pearl inside or are empty in their gray

20. So the child who died maybe had a mind
That died with him, intelligence of its kind

21. He was a flower that an unkind hand plucked
Before it bloomed, its time by fate unstuck

22. Exalted is this house in beauty and rank
With grandeur and breadth it is steadfast and frank

23. It climbed eulogies' steps so high that no height
Of glory under the stars matches its might

24. Whenever my eyes wander its halls and sights
I see splendor flash from its lofty heights

25. It shows it was built by folk noble in soul
Generous at heart, magnanimous their goal

26. God reward their effort, successes unfurled
Reached the pride that their spirits had swirled

27. Their name through ages will lasting remain
With praise and acclaim will their memory reign

28. Those who built it are winners of all acclaim
While misers in shame have blackened their name

29. Do not falter O eminent upright home
In you, children's cure and recovery roam

30. In you, wet nurses treat them with care
Doctors attend them, medicine is there

31. In you, safety and shelter they will find
In you, health and growth they will bind

32. In your pavilions, virtues abound
That with eloquence poets expound

33. Your walls spoke to me with voiceless tongue
Eloquence within your silent lungs

34. You are the century's pride, oft sung
About you rises my eulogy young