"The Golf Links" by Sarah N. Cleghorn

Cleghorn was born in Virginia in 1876.  She graduated from a northeastern college which I'm sure was a great accomplishment for a lady of the time.  She was also friends with Robert Frost and Dorothy Fisher, a famous novelist of the time.  Her poems were mostly comments on society.  They ranged from women's suffrage to prison reform to the death penalty to child labor.  This poem in particular is about kids that are working while the adults are playing.  Shouldn't that be the other way around?  Cleghorn is probably making a commentary on the child labor of the early 1900s.  There were no child labor laws at that time, and children were used to work in dangerous factories like steel mills.  The children worked hard every day while the adults played golf and then drank their troubles away.  In this time period, the rich got richer and the poor got poorer.