ABSTRACT

That parents, when alive, should be served according to propriety; that, when dead, they should be buried according to propriety; and that they should be sacrificed to according to propriety.

The last two lines seem to mean that, for a mother, separation from her child always seems so long as to be unbearable, and that her anxiety and longing are vividly expressed in the sewing with which she hopes to make the garment durable, for she fears that the garment will not outlast the child's absence.