What are to me those honours or renown
    Past or to come, a new born people’s cry?
Albeit for such I could despise a crown
    Of aught save laurel, or for such could die.
I am a fool of passion, and a frown
    Of thine to me is an adder’s eye
To the poor bird whose pinion fluttering down
    Wafts unto death the breast it bore so high;
Such is this maddening fascination grown,
    So strong thy magic or so weak am I.

                                                                                (1824)

Photograph: Sooreh Hera

Poem: Lord Noel Byron

Swedish artist Lars Vilks since 2007 known for his drawings of Mohammed as a roundabout dog has produced another fine piece of artwork.

The prophet in a gay bar in Stockholm with a cup of coffee and avec. The artist´s website (in swedish) .

The drawing bears a reference to the iranian artist Sooreh Hera´s work Adam & Ewald, rejected by The city museum of The Hague in 2007.

Adam & Ewald