W. H. Auden

While translating the haiku and other verse in Dag Hammarskjöld's Markings, Auden began using haiku for many of his poems. In 1971 Secretary-General of the United Nations U Thant commissioned Auden to write the words, and Pablo Casals to compose the music, for a "Hymn to the United Nations", but the work had no official status. wiki