William Shackleton
   Memorial Stone Kirkby Malham Churchyard

The wording on the Shackleton memorial stone 
(old field gatepost) in Kirkby Malham churchyard,
under a yew tree alongside the path leading from 
the gate by the Victoria Free House, is as follows:

	      In loving memory of
	      William Shackleton
		   Artist
	      Born Jan 15th 1872 
	       Died Jan 9th 1933
	      He hath awakened 
	     from the dream of life
	      Also of his wife
	      Marion Elizabeth
	        (May Furniss)
		   Artist
	      Born Sept 13th 1874
	      Died Mar 15th 1957

	
The line "He hath awakened from the dream of life" 
is taken from Shelley's poem Adonais: an elegy on 
the death of John Keats

	xxxix
	Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep --
	He hath awakened from the dream of life --
	'Tis we who, lost in stormy visions, keep
	With phantoms an unprofitable strife,
	And in mad trance strike with our spirit's knife
	Invulnerable nothings. - We decay
	Like corpses in a charnel; fear and grief 
	Convulse us and consume us day by day, 
	And cold hopes swarm like worms within 
				our living clay.

	
The line may also derive from a poem written in 1814 
and attributed to John Keats.

	'Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream'
	I
	Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream,
	And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?
	The transient pleasures as a vision seem,
	And yet we think the greatest pain's to die.

	II
	How strange it is that man on earth should roam,
	And lead a life of woe, but not forsake
	His rugged path; nor dare he view alone
	His future doom which is but to awake.