Sethna's Pharphar (Click for RY Deshpande's & Sri Aurobindo's comments.)

Where is the glassy gold of Pharphar
Or its echoing silver-grey
When the magic ethers of evening
Wash one the various way?

I have travelled the whole earth over
Yet never found
The beautiful body of Pharphar
Or its soul of secret sound.

But all my dreams are an answer
To Pharphar’s blind career;
And the songs that I sing are an image
Of quiets I long to hear.

For, only this unreached beauty
No time shall mar—
This river of infinite distance,
Pharphar.