Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nothing Gold Can Stay
Robert Frost

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay

Such a short poem that says so much. Beauty is fleeting comes to mind first. The gold metaphor - could it mean gold (as in the currency), only gives us temporary and/or false pleasure? Then there's the reference to Eden - the fall from The Garden, "sinking to grief." Could it mean the Western Judeo-Christian view of Adam & Eve being banished from The Garden and the subsequent domination over nature???