And the snake was more crafty than all the animals of the field
which The Lord, god, had made.
And he said to the woman,
Is it so that god really said-
“You (both) shall not eat from the trees of the garden?”
And the woman said to the snake:
‘From the fruit of the trees of the garden, we may eat.
And from the fruit of the tree,
which is in the middle of the garden –
god said “you shall not eat it,
and you shall not touch it
lest you die.”‘
And the snake said to the woman
‘You shall not surely die,
because God knows that on the day
when you eat from it your eyes will be opened
and you will become like gods
knowing good and evil.’
Thank you, dear Jesus,
for all you have given me,
for all you have taken away from me,
for all you have left me.
Thomas More (c.1478-1535)