we buy and sell our souls, employed for widget-dimes; like modern ne'er-do'-wells kept on from ancient times -- but love is better-than, like light wash on the hill -- so should we run to get nowhere, or simply just be still?

we buy and sell our souls, employed for widget-dimes; like modern ne'er-do'-wells kept on from ancient times -- but love is better-than, like light wash on the hill -- so should we run to get nowhere, or simply just be still?