the lands of sunrise and morning. ch XXIV. "Thus Jurgen abode for a little over two months in Cocaigne, and complied with the customs of that country. Nothing altered in Cocaigne: but in the world wherein Jurgen was reared, he knew, it would by this time be September, with the leaves flaring gloriously, and the birds flocking southward, and the hearts of Jurgen's fellows turning to not unpleasant regrets. But in Cocaigne there was no regret and no variability, but only an interminable flow of curious pleasures, illumined by the wandering star of Venus Mechanitis." Painting "The Land of Cockaigne" was depicted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in his painting Luilekkerland (1567). Cockaigne, a 2003 painting by Vincent Desiderio. Music Cockaigne (In London Town) is a concert overture composed by Edward Elgar in 1901. The folk song "Big Rock Candy Mountain", first recorded by Harry McClintock in 1928, depicts a hobo's idea of paradise along the lines of Cockaigne, with "cigarette trees" and hens that lay soft-boiled eggs. The album Land of Cockayne (1981) by Soft Machine. Edenbridge's song The Most Beautiful Place mentions "You are what I call Cockaign". Jacques Brel's song Le Plat Pays mentions "Et de noirs clochers comme mâts de cocagne" (and black steeples like cockaigne poles) Carl Orff’s choral work Carmina Burana, a musical setting of anonymous mediæval ribald verse in Latin and Middle Low German, includes the song Ego sum abbas Cucaniensis or "I am the abbot of Cockaigne". A song "The Land of Cockaigne" can be found on the 2017 album A Coat Worth Wearing by the Scots-born Sheffield-based musician Neil McSwenny Neil McSweeney. Comics Cockaigne is the home of Narda, the wife of Mandrake the Magician (created by Lee Falk). Film Hans Trutz in the Land of Plenty, a 1917 German fantasy film by Paul Wegener. Mischief in Wonderland, a 1957 German fantasy film starring Alexander Engel. Pays de cocagne, a 1971 documentary film directed by Pierre Étaix. Various The Joy of Cooking (first edition 1931) uses the word "Cockaigne" to indicate that the recipe was a favorite of the authors' parents. A ski resort in Cherry Creek, New York bore the name Cockaigne until its 2011 closure. New ownership announced the resort would reopen in December 2019. See also Arcadia (utopia) Big Rock Candy Mountain Cloud cuckoo land El Dorado Paradise Shangri-La Cocaine References Further reading Luisa Del Giudice, "Mountains of