Here is a bit of poetical decapitation where the removal of the first letter, then the second, third and fourth in the three missing words, makes the meaning clear(ish):
The lilies on the bank are ?
While in our little bark we’re ?
Our course to favouring breezes ?
Like birds upon the ?
With lily-pads the oars are ?
As eager hands the blossoms ?
Each shouts “Dull care away ?”
And echo answers “?”
It seems to me a strange ?
That we should pay so great ?
For trifles should be little ?
Like such a common thing as ?
