sentences:  The aria "Schafe können sicher weiden" ("Sheep May Safely Graze") is the most familiar part of this cantata.It is Bach's earliest surviving secular cantata, composed while he was employed as court organist in Weimar.The work may have been intended as a gift from Bach's employer, William Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, for his neighbouring ruler, Duke Christian, who was a keen hunter.