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Civilization — spurns — the Leopard!
Was the Leopard — bold?
Deserts — never rebuked her Satin
Ethiop — her Gold
Tawny — her Customs
She was Conscious
Spotted — her Dun Gown
This was the Leopard's nature — Signor
Need — a keeper — frown?
Pity — the Pard — that left her Asia
Memories — of Palm
Cannot be stifled — with Narcotic
This was the Leopard’s past identity, Mister. Is there any need for a human owner/zookeeper to frown on it? 
 If we take the Leopard as representative of the poet, these lines are a way of saying: “This is who I was–why should anyone act superior and judge?” 
 Notice that this would-be moralistic judge is explicitly conceived as male, and that the speaker addresses him with elaborate mock deference: “Signor.”
Civilization — spurns — the Leopard