# L'Esclave

- Music: E. Lalo (died 1892)
- Words: T. Gautier (died 1872)
- Licence of the score: Public Domain
- Credit: Typeset by Daniel Johnson for the Mutopia Project (Public Domain)
- Source: https://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=587

## The words

Captive et peutêtre oubliée,  
je songe à mes jeunes amours, à mes beaux  
jours! À mes beaux jours!  
Et par la fenêtre grillée je regarde  
l’oiseau joyeux fendant les cieux.  
Auprès de lui, belle Espérance,  
porte moi sur tes ailes d’or, s’il m’aime  
encor! S’il m’aime encor!  
Et pour endormir ma souffrance,  
suspends mon âme sur son cœur comme une  
fleur!  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).