The speaker looks back at arriving at a country fair and immediately falling under its influence. Strange players create a spell in the slow, sleepy heat of noon, and everyone loses track of time—no one believes the day will ever end. The closing question, asking whether they would have been surprised if they had all turned into crows, shows just how far the fair has loosened the usual rules of reality. In that mood, even a strange transformation feels possible.
The feeling is warm, dreamy, and slightly wistful. It is less about what actually happened and more about a moment of collective enchantment, when ordinary life seemed suspended and the impossible felt close.