. . "And Wordsworth???s total value is of this kind.??? Echoing the Ode, as he had in insisting that ???our upper nature lies always in Day,??? he describes men such as Wordsworth, who offer comfort in distress, as possessing ???the true light of all our day.??? Their ???spirit??? constitutes ???the argument for the spiritual world??? (JMN 5:160-61)." . .