What does it matter,
The new year, the old year? 
I stretch out my legs
And all alone have a 
Quiet sleep. 
Don’t tell me the monks
Aren’t getting their instruction;
Here and there the nightingale
Is singing 
The highest Zen.

Bankei Yōtaku (1622 CE-1693 CE), Bankei Yōtaku was a Japanese Rinzai Zen master, and the abbot of the Ryōmon-ji and Nyohō-ji. He is best known for his talks on the Unborn as he called it.