What homely actions are described by the speaker in the poem "Fear"?

In the poem "Fear" by Gabriela Mistral, the speaker describes various comfortable and homely actions performed between the speaker and her daughter, and depends upon the girl remaining as she is, a human, rather than being turned into a "swallow" or a "queen." The speaker suggests that it is more valuable to her that she be able to "comb her hair" than that her little girl should be elevated to the ranks of a swallow or a "princess." As a princess, indeed, how could the little girl perform the comfortable, homelike action of "play[ing] on the meadow"? It is also important to the speaker that her little girl "sleep at my side."
In imagining her little girl as a princess or a queen, the speaker presents her, in these hypothetical situations, as being held at a distance, unable to engage with her mother as she once did. If she were to be made a queen, for instance, the mother would no longer be able to "rock" her to sleep at night. As such, the mother expresses her fear that "they" will put her little girl in an ostensibly elevated position which, in practice, would take her away from the love and care of her mother.