This must have been a very popular ballad; WorldCat.org lists 29 copies of the sheet music in various libraries. The lyrics are by Thomas Haynes Bayly; several composers have set his poem to music.

Some copies are marked "Answer to the admired ballad, 'Oh! No—We Never Mention Her.'"

From Fifty Lyrical Ballads by [Nathaniel] Thomas Haynes Bayly (Bath [England]: Printed by Mary Meyler, 1829), page 47:


SHE NEVER BLAMED HIM,—NEVER.
Thomas Haynes Bayly

She never blamed him—never,
But received him when he came,
With a welcome kind as ever,
Though she started at his name:
But vainly she dissembled,
For whene'er she tried to smile
A tear unbidden trembled
In her blue eye all the while.

She knew that she was dying,
And she dreaded not her doom;
She never thought of sighing
O'er her beauty's blighted bloom:
She knew her cheek was alter'd,
And she knew her eye was dim;
But her sweet voice only falter'd
When she spoke of leaving him.

'Tis true that He had lured her
From the Isle where she was born;
'Tis true He had inured her
To the cold world's cruel scorn:
But yet she never blamed him,
For the anguish she had known,
And though she seldom named him—
Yet she thought of him alone.

She sighed when he caress'd her,
For she knew that they must part;
She spoke not when He press'd her
To his young and panting heart:
The banners waved around her,
And she heard the bugles sound;
They pass'd—and strangers found her
Cold and lifeless on the ground.