“M” is for the million things she gave me,
M 代表着母亲给予了我们一切，
“O” means only that she is growing old,
O 意味着与此同时她正在衰老，
“T” is for the tears she shed to save me,
T 象征着她为了拯救我们流的泪，
“H” is for her heart of purest gold,
H 表明了她最无私最伟大的心灵，
“E” is for her eyes,with love-light shining,
E 是她充满着爱万分温柔的眼神，
“R” means right,and right she will always be.
R 说明着正确，并且代表着她永恒的真理。
Put them all together,
把他们和在一起，
they spell “MOTHER”,
便是母亲，
A word that means the world to me.
一个代表着最无私最伟大的
给予了我所有全部的词。
Howard Johnson(c.1915)