Explain these lines from stanza 9: If we're to live up to our own time,
Then victory won't lie in the blade,
But in all the bridges we've made.

in paragraph 6 of "sinners in the hands of an angry god" by jonathan edwards, he talks about how doing good things alone will not save men from going to hell because they're at the mercy of the will of god. "spiritual reform" provides men with a false sense of safety.

the eye wink at the hand; yet let that be / which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.

uncanny would be like unlucky or disaster. you can look for more in the dictionary or if you have text book then turn to a. 17 but it's different with textbooks.