In the above mentioned line, Naidu suggests martyrdom for the countless Indian soldiers who fought for the British in the World War I and gave their lives. The speaker in the poem, Mother India, asks that the blood of her martyred sons be remembered and they be honoured as well for their sacrifice, when people in the foreign countries would pay homage to their own martyred comrades.

In the above mentioned line the poet Sarojini Naidu requests the world to remember the blood of her martyred sons who fought bravely in the First World War and lost their life for someone else.