Ten Favourite Songs/Oh no! we never mention her

Oh! no we never mention her.

Oh! no we never mention her,
 Her name is never heard;
My lips are now forbid to speak,
 That once familiar word.
From sport to sport they hurry me,
 To banish my regret;
And when they win a smile from me,
 They think that I forget.

They bid me seek in change of scene,
 The charms that others see;
But were I in a foreign land,
 They'd find no change in me.
'Tis true that I behold no more,
 The valley where we met:
I do not see the hawthorn tree,
 But how can I forget.

They tell me she is happy now,
 The gayest of the gay;
They hint that she has me forgot,
 But heed not what they say.
Like me perhaps she struggles with,
 Each feeling of regret;
But if she loves as I have lov'd,
 She never can forget.