The Rum River is a slow, meandering channel that connects Minnesota's Mille Lacs Lake with the Mississippi River. It runs for 151 miles (243 km) through the farming communities of Onamia, Milaca, Princeton, Cambridge, and Isanti before ending at the Twin Cities suburb of Anoka, roughly 20 miles northwest of downtown Minneapolis.
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For he will do
As he do do
And there’s no doing anything about it!”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
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In a dark church
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—Charles Simic (b. 1938)