M is the million things she gave me,
O means only that she's growing old,
T is for the tears she shed to save me,
H is for her heart of purest gold,
E is for her eyes, with love-light shining,
R means right, and right she'll always be.
Put them all together, they spell "MOTHER",
A word means the world to me.
-- Howard Johnson (c. 1915)