“M” is for the million things she gave me,

M 代表著母親給予了我們一切，

“O” means only that she is growing old,

O 意味著與此同時她正在衰老，

“T” is for the tears she shed to save me,

T 象征著她為了拯救我們流的淚，

“H” is for her heart of purest gold,

H 表明了她最無私最偉大的心靈，

“E” is for her eyes,with love-light shining,

E 是她充滿著愛萬分溫柔的眼神，

“R” means right,and right she will always be.

R 說明著正確，并且代表著她永恒的真理。

Put them all together,

把他們和在一起，

they spell “MOTHER”,

便是母親，

A word that means the world to me.

一個代表著最無私最偉大的

給予了我所有全部的詞。

Howard Johnson(c.1915)