The Washington Palm

For a species of palm 'tis a very tall tree On looking at it that's how it does seem to me So skinny and tall with about twenty fronds at the top When it's time comes to fall to the ground quite a drop. Compared to the other stockier palm trees it seems very tall The first Washington Palm I have ever seen I'll recall Today in a park in a town by the sea For as long as I have the gift of memory. A long way from the desert mountain valleys of Mexico it's Land of ancestry A very rare one in this Southern Country To grow fast and very tall is it's claim to fame Washingtonia Robusta is it's Latin name. A little about them in books I have read Many of them fall victims of lightning strikes 'tis said The longest lived palm tree a century span And the tallest perhaps the Washington Palm alias the Mexican Fan.