"To His Coy Mistress", el poema que da título a 'World Enough and Time'

El político y escritor Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) elaboró el metafísico poema "To His Coy Mistress", que fue publicado póstumo en 1681 y da título al episodio 'World Enough and Time':

Poema
Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, Lady, were no crime
We would sit down and think which way
To walk and pass our long love's day.
Thou by the Indian Ganges' side
Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the Flood,
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow;
A hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast,
But thirty thousand to the rest;
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
For, Lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate.

But at my back I always hear
Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song; then worms shall try
That long preserved virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust:
The grave's a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.

Now therefore, while the youthful hue
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
And while thy willing soul transpires
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport us while we may,
And now, like amorous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour
Than languish in his slow-chapped power.
Let us roll all our strength and all
Our sweetness up into one ball,
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Through the iron gates of life:
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.

El autor del poema empieza a dirigirse a una mujer que ha sido lenta en sus avances románticos y describe cómo la amaría si estuviese libre de las limitaciones de una vida normal.

Es en la segunda estrofa cuando todo se complica porque el autor lamenta de lo efímera que es la vida y que se ha ido la posibilidad de que uno pueda disfrutar del otro ya que dos personas no pueden abrazarse en la muerte.

Y la última estrofa habla de aprovechar al máximo el tiempo posible que puedan estar juntos, porque será corto, pero debe vivirse con la mayor intensidad posible.

"A su tímida dama" se dirige en todo momento en el poema que da nombre a 'World Enough and Time', el penúltimo episodio de esta décima temporada que contará con Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, Matt Lucas, Michelle Gomez y John Simm.

El Doctor se va a enfrentar al reto más difícil de su vida cuando el tiempo deje de estar de su lado y se convierta en el enemigo.

El capítulo se emitirá el próximo 24 de junio a las 6.45pm en BBC One.