Fortuitous Poetry by Wilfrid Sheed, II

Music is not produced
By whole groups,
But by one genius at a time,
And it may be significant
That the two families
That gave us
Irving Berlin and George Gershin
Both fled Russia
On the same great wave
Of czarist pogroms,
Only to find American black people
Not only singing
About a similar experience,
But using a Hebrew Bible
As their text.