M . . . .  is for 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 that means the world to me.
                             — Howard Johnson (c. 1915)