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.

were,have settled (b) mark brainliest : )

common stockholders usually have the right to vote on major issues affecting the company, like mergers and liquidation of the corporation's assets. they also have part ownership of the company which can then be traded on a secondary market (the stock exchange).

explanation:

  this riddles' answer is library.

  the "leaves" are a reference to the books' pages that the library contains; the branches are a network of libraries that connect multiple libraries' collections, resources, and items in a system of a common database, integrating them; the branches' organization are a useful management tool for coordinating the multiple collections many libraries have.

a dellusion is athing where your mind sees stuff