The Golf Links

The golf links lie so near the mill
That almost every day
The laboring children can look out
And see the men play.
I really loved this short poem.  Even though it's only four lines, it's incredibly visual.  I can really see the small children, working hard while seeing rich men outside playing.  It is such a reciprocal of what most people think life should be like. The children should be playing while men work  Because children playing seems like the oldest natural thing, I thought it was interesting that Cleghorn used "gold links."  Links is the oldest form of golf...so it seems like this has been the way people have been living for a long time.  It seems she almost could be saying that it's an acceptable thing.  But the shortness of the poem leads me to believe she thinks it should change.  The four lines are so simple that they really point out the simple inconsistency and point out how odd it is.