Love Is, Love Is a Dark Pit

Love is — dove is but a dark pit,
Suddenly I fell into it;
And since into this pit I fell,
It seems I live beneath a spell .

I'm set to watch my father's sheep,
I might as well be fast asleep.
The herd now roams about at will,
And tramples grain on vale and hill.

With careful thought my mother filled
My bag with food, I could have stilled
My hunger, but my bag 'I lost;
By fasting, now I pay the cost.

Dear father and dear mother, pray,
Forgive me if I don't obey.
The while my heart with love's aglow,
What I am doing I don't 'know.