You are correct. This is the way these things are done: only the<br>
paragraphs following the first are indented.<br>
        I can little hope to better express why we do this than<br>
Robert Bringhurst does when he explains in his widely acclaimed<br>
“typographer’s bible”, [*The Elements of Typographic Style*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Typographic_Style):

> ### 2.3 Blocks and Paragraphs

> 2.3.1 *Set opening paragraphs flush left.*

> The function of a paragraph indent is to mark a pause, setting<br>
the paragraph apart from what precedes it. If a paragraph is<br>
preceded by a title or subhead, the indent is superfluous and<br>
can therefore be omitted, as it is here.

> 2.3.2 *In continuous text, mark all paragraphs after the first<br>
with an indent of at least one en.*

> Typography like other arts, from cooking to choreography, in-<br>
volves a balance between the familiar and the unfamiliar, the<br>
dependably consistent and the unforeseen. Typographers gen-<br>
erally take pleasure in the unpredictable length of the paragraph<br>
while accepting the simple and reassuring consistency of the<br>
paragraph indent. The prose paragraph and its verse counter-<br>
part, the stanza, are basic units of linguistic thought and literary<br>
style. The typographer must articulate them enough to make<br>
them clear, yet not so strongly the the form instead of the con-<br>
tent steals the show. If the units of thought, or the boundaries<br>
between thoughts, look more important than the thoughts<br>
themselves, the typographer has failed.