Cain.‍He speaks like

A God.

Adah. So did the Serpent, and it lied.410

Lucifer. Thou errest, Adah!—was not the Tree that

Of Knowledge?

Adah.‍Aye—to our eternal sorrow.

Lucifer. And yet that grief is knowledge—so he lied not:

And if he did betray you, 'twas with Truth;

And Truth in its own essence cannot be

But good.