A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Revolt in France led many learned Brit,
Debate the rights demanded of their king.
A meager education would submit,
A woman's life to old tradition's cling.

Inspired by Hume, that rights should be conferred,
By reason, not antique ideas of role.
That bound by senses ever is absurd.
To man: companion, not decor, their goal.

Response by Mary Wollstonecraft to Burke,
Used voice both honest and abstract in scope.
Though not content, desired revise her work,
She passed away, yet left her daughter hope.

A call to men to break their sisters' chain,
Once knowledge gained, their rights would be the same.