Does anyone know exactly what this poem is about?

There are some comments here:

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Les

Here further up the mountain slope
Than there was every any hope,
My father built, enclosed a spring,
Strung chains of wall round everything,
Subdued the growth of earth to grass,
And brought our various lives to pass.
A dozen girls and boys we were.
The mountain seemed to like the stir,
And made of us a little while--
With always something in her smile.
Today she wouldn't know our name.
(No girl's, of course, has stayed the same.)
The mountain pushed us off her knees.
And now her lap is full of trees.


Now, that is strange. I don't think I have ever noticed RF make a grammar mistake before. Further should be 'farther', I mean. There are 14 lines, but one could not really label it a sonnet. Rhymes are wrong, for example, and the volta comes at line 12 instead of line 9, not to mention iambic tet instead of IP.

The mountain is personified as a country mother who allows the family to live in her house and later scatters them, to raise a passel of trees instead.

The chains of wall are a length, one chain = 22 yards.