【中文】

慈母手中線，

游子身上衣。

臨行密密縫，

意恐遲遲歸。

誰言寸草心，

報得三春暉。

【英文】

A Song of the Travelling Son

A thread in a mother’s loving hand,

Makes up the clothes for her travelling son.

Knitting all her affection into every stitch,

She’s worrying he’d be away for too long.

-- How could the grateful humble grass

Ever repay the kindness of the generous sun?