“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)