The Sikh Mothers, The Forty Sikh Martyers
by Puran Singh from The Temple Tulips.

Forty of the Faithful deserted Guru Gobind Singh,-
unwilling to starve with him, unwilling to stay and
die at Anandpur where the Guru was besiged.

They sought shelter in their homes, but the doors were
shut against them, and a cry leapt from the Sikh
mothers and from the Sikh sisters and wives.

The brave women bade them go back; there was no
refusge for those who had turned their backs on the Guru.

"No Sikh mother shall own her son, nor a sikh woman
her man, who turns his back on the Guru. There
is life in death with Him, it is nowhere else."

And they died fighting for the Guru,-the forty martyrs.