Careful Words

idler (n.)

How various his employments whom the world

Calls idle, and who justly in return

Esteems that busy world an idler too!

William Cowper (1731-1800): The Task. Book iii. The Garden. Line 352.

An idler is a watch that wants both hands,

As useless if it goes as if it stands.

William Cowper (1731-1800): Retirement. Line 681.