abroad

She dreams of summers spent by crystal lakes
With unfamiliar chatter in the air,
And mimicking strange accents with mistakes
To foreigners too full of life to care;

Now back at home, each gesture that she makes
Evinces how her heart has lingered there;
And in her eyes, I see, that same heart breaks
That in her reveries I cannot share.

This globe I did, like her, long to explore
Back when it was the only one I knew;
But empty are its novelties and few
Beside those spinning orbs, wherein lies more
Than ever world I glimpsed or felt before;
And when she smiles, the heavens come in view.

A*broad" (#), adv. [Pref. a- + broad.]

1.

At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad.

The fox roams far abroad. Prior.

2.

Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode; as, to walk abroad.

I went to St. James', where another was preaching in the court abroad. Evelyn.

3.

Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries; as, we have broils at home and enemies abroad.

Macaulay.

4.

Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; widely.

He went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter. Mark i. 45.

To be abroad. (a) To be wide of the mark; to be at fault; as, you are all abroad in your guess. (b) To be at a loss or nonplused.

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