The poem

Chinese:

English:

慈母手中线，游子身上衣。
临行密密缝，意恐迟迟归。
谁言寸草心，报得三春晖

A piece of thread in the mother's hand, up and down the son's clothes it ran.
One stitch follows another, by a mothers concerned; waiting for her son's early return.
How can his heart, feeble as a straw, return the sunny warmth of his mother at all.