Sentence:  Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict there lay; / It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a <WSD>trice</WSD> it was called the "Alice May." / And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum; / Then "Here," said I, with a sudden cry, "is my cre-ma-tor-eum." 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  "Now only in the phrase" '''in a trice''': a very short time; an instant, a moment.