I'm convinced by that--so Edenic beauty/the Golden Age is the stuff of art song, not the song of those who toil on the land....and that poetic image of the land where everything is green, and nothing withers, or where 'the Soul of man never dies' (Canaan's land) is set in the future or afterlife...

Gonna look up that Elanoy song in the DT now--great verse, that !