If your paragraph consists of 8 lines of text, you do exactly as I said. Set fade in to apply on a line by line basis. Fade in can operate on a letter, word, line or paragraph basis.
Example steps;
Enter your paragraph. 8 lines in your case.
Go to transistions, select the fade in transition, click and drag the fade letters preset to your paragraph.
Now change “apply to” to “line”
At this point you will/may want to adjust the overlap and smoothness settings to taste.
If you have multiple columns, you have to use a paragraph for each and stagger the start point of the second paragraph fade in.