As gold is better that's in fire tride,
So is the Bankside Globe that late was burn'd:
For where before it had a thatched hide,
Now a stately Theator 'tis turn'd.
Which is an emblem that great things are won,
By those that dare through greatest dangers run.
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There's something rather affecting about the idea of an unknown poet walking past the hulk of the Globe in 1614, soon to vanish for half a millenium and more and coming up with the following lines. Also might be worth noting that at that time, neither would the subsequent immortality of the Globe's star playwright have been suspected (the plays didn't even exist in print), nor the building's future fame and glory.
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