piety
reverence or devout duty
Root
- piet / pious: duty, reverence, or devotion
Other words with the piet / pious root
- pious: devout or reverent
Piety is reverence felt as duty, devotion, or sacred obligation.
The poem treats piety as care for what a family holds sacred.
Piety can be religious, but the root is not here to moralize. Hold the reverence-and-duty image: something is treated as worthy of devotion.